Investigating Emotional Intelligence Relationship and Social capital among Researchers Working in IRIB Research Center

Nowadays,besides humane,financial and economic capital,another factor has been propounded in organizations which is called "social capital".social capital provides an appropriate enviroment for human resume productivity.On the other hand ,social capital has a significant role in making it possible to use other forms of organizational capitals.Social capital is a set of existing norms in social systems that increases the level of coopeation among members of society and reduces the relationships costs(Fokuyama 1999).Emotional intelligence may play a basic role in work environment (Mckee et al. 2002).Daniel Goleman (1998) defines emotional intelligence as self-awareness,self-managment,self-motivation,social-awareness and social-management.Given that social capital is linked to the relationships among individuals and emotional intelligence has a crucial impact on forming these relationships.This research has attempted examining the impact of the five dimensions of emotional intelligence as independent variables on social capital aspects(namely trust,communication networks,common goals,and language)as dependent variables among the researchers and managers of IRIB research center.this research is a descriptive survey in which the relationships among independent and dependent variables have been examined considering the data collected through questionnaires.Descriptive and inferential statistics have also been applied in order to conduct analysis and provide a model.the results show that there is a direct relationship between emotional intelligence and social capital.therefore,it is possible to increase the level of social capital in the organizations by considering emotional intelligence indicator at the beginning of recruitment and instructing it through the work.